Bedouin society because they usually possessed large herds. * It is a Muslim practice to pray toward the city of Mecca. * I was surprised to hear that Muhammad’s flight to Medina began the Muslim calendar. * The Umayyad clan dominated Mecca‚ and later became a Muslim dynasty. * Muhammad is the prophet that started the religion of Islam‚ which even today is a major religion. * My grandmother reads the Qur’an in her free time. * If one is Muslim‚ one must always have faith in the
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control over the Silk Road‚ Muslim traders began to travel along it and journey east. For this reason‚ they gradually made their way to China. Consequently‚ as they carried Islam with them‚ it was first introduced to China during this period‚ the Tang Dynasty. As Islam was brought to China‚ Chinese culture was also being transmitted to the Middle East simultaneously. Furthermore‚ Islam was spread by military conquest. From 632 A.D.‚ the rightly guided caliphs of the Muslims began to rapidly spread Islam
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the Arabian Peninsula by means of conversion to Islam and conquering of territory. In the first centuries conversion to Islam followed the rapid growth of the Islamic world under the Rashidun and Umayyad Caliphs. Muslim dynasties were soon established and subsequent empires such as those of the Abbasids‚ Almoravids‚ Seljuk Turks‚ Mughals in India and Safavids in Persia and Ottomans were among the largest and most powerful in the world. The Islamic world was composed of numerous sophisticated centers
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(750–1258) Under the Abbasid caliphate‚ which succeeded the Umayyads in 750‚ the topic of Islamic political and cultural life shifted eastward from Syria to Iraq‚ where Baghdad‚ the circular City of Peace‚ was founded as the new capital. The Abbasids later built another city north of Baghdad‚ called Samarra meaning “He who sees it rejoices”‚ which replaced the capital for about 40 years. Three centuries of Abbasid rule were a golden age in which Baghdad and Samarra’ functioned as the cultural capitals
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Question: With the collapse of the classical civilizations‚ post-classical civilizations arose shortly thereafter. Compare the factors that led to the rise post-classical civilizations from 500 CE to 1200CE between two of the following regions- Europe‚ East Asia‚ Africa or the Middle East. Model Essay Comparison Essay Post-Classical Civilizations With the collapse of the Roman‚ Gupta and Han empires‚ the world was left in a period of chaos with little structure in most areas. However after
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Expansion that started with the rule of the Rightly Guided Caliphs continued under the Umayyad Dynasty‚ which ruled from A.D 661 to 750. Islam gained political control and influence from Spain to the borders of China. In A.D. 750‚ the Abbasids replaced the Umayyad and the capital of Islam changed from Damascus in Syria to Baghdad in Iraq. Baghdad grew into the intellectual center of the Muslim world‚ even if the Abbasids did not maintain control over the same huge empire. From the beginning‚ learning was
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of the Islamic faith were formed. Many of Muhammad’s relatives and companions were involved in the power struggle‚ and the war finally stabilized when Mu’awiyya‚ the governor of Syria‚ took control of the Caliphate. This marked the rise of the Umayyad dynasty which ruled Islam for quite some time. Although the Qur’an ordains that the division of Muslims into different sections is forbidden‚ three sects of Islam developed and emerged at the conclusion of the Islamic Civil War. These include the Sunni
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is to discuss the Islamization of Persia in relation to the Samanid and Buyid Dynasties. The synthesis of Persian culture and Islam was not an immediate result of the Arab expansion into Iran and there is certainly a lack of research on the subject. However‚ in this essay‚ I will attempt to explain the contributions of the Samanid and Buyid dynasties to this synthesis with a focus on the attempts of the Samanid Dynasty at centralization and a unified identity through religion‚ language and culture
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Animal Domestication (Diamond’s Thesis) 3. Persian and Peloponnesian Wars 4. Greek Golden Age of Philosophy‚ Alexander the Great‚ Hellenistic Era 5. Umayyad‚ Abassid Dynasties‚ House of Wisdom‚ The Ulama 6. Abbasid view of slavery 7. The Abbasid view of slavery was a good one. There were many slaves employed byduring the Abbasid dynasty. The wealthy elite employed many male and female slaves.Female slaves were often made into concubines‚ and the males into eunuchs. Most slavescame from non-Muslim
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9) Discuss what factors causes the Umayyad Dynasty to fall. a) Include the Abbasid successes. The Early Abbasid Era 1) Discuss how the Abbasid Dynasty differed from the Umayyad. a) Include how they were more of centralized power. b) Include how they treated Mawali and non-Muslim converts. 2) Explain what causes the economic expansion under the Abbasid dynasty a) Include the developments of the merchant class and improvements in the social
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